Publications

Our publications are academic papers, projects, case studies, guides , surveys

Academic Papers

2021

[su_icon_text icon=”icon: file-text” icon_color=”#59A373″ icon_size=”32″] Paper L. Navarro, Roura, M., Franquesa, D., and Meseguer, R., eReuse poster: the circular economy of digital devices, in Proceedings of the 2021 ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies, New York, NY, USA, 2021.
[/su_icon_text] [su_icon_text icon=”icon: file-text” icon_color=”#59A373″ icon_size=”32″] Paper M. Roura, Franquesa, D., Navarro, L., and Meseguer, R., Circular digital devices: lessons about the social and planetary boundaries, in Workshop on Computing within Limits, New York, 2021.
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2020

[su_icon_text icon=”icon: file-text” icon_color=”#59A373″ icon_size=”32″] Dataset: Devices until june 2019. A public dataset about reuse life-cycle data of devices. Under the eReuse device data commons license (CC BY). July 2020. (webpage).
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2019

[su_icon_text icon=”icon: file-text” icon_color=”#59A373″ icon_size=”32″] Paper “Circular consumption and production of electronic devices: an approach to measuring, durability, upgradeability, reusability, obsolescence and premature recycling” , In Proceedings of 19th European Roundtable for Sustainable Consumption and Production (ERSCP 2019). October 2019. ( Conference | paper).
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2018

[su_icon_text icon=”icon: file-text” icon_color=”#59A373″ icon_size=”32″] Paper “Devices as a Commons: limits to premature recycling”, In Proceedings of Fourth Workshop on Computing within Limits (Limits’18). June 2018, ACM, New York, NY, USA, Article 4, 10 pages. ( Conference | paper).
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2017

[su_icon_text icon=”icon: file-text” icon_color=”#59A373″ icon_size=”32″] Paper “Sustainability and participation in the digital commons”. Interactions, Volume 24 Issue 3, June 2017, Pages 66-69. https://doi.org/10.1145/3058139. (paper).
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2016

[su_icon_text icon=”icon: file-text” icon_color=”#59A373″ icon_size=”32″] Paper “A Circular Commons for Digital Devices”, Second Workshop on Computing within Limits, June 9-10, 2016, Irvine, CA, USA. (Conference | paper|video).
[/su_icon_text] [su_icon_text icon=”icon: file-text” icon_color=”#59A373″ icon_size=”32″] Bachelor’s Final Project “The Architecture of eReuse.org and the Development of DeviceHub, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, May 2016. (PDF)
[/su_icon_text] [su_icon_text icon=”icon: file-text” icon_color=”#59A373″ icon_size=”32″] Paper publication (March 2016). Publication at newsletter, “Informatil Für Umweltschutz, Nachaltige Ebtwicklung und risikomanagement”, Fachausschuss UmweltInformatik, March 2016, 1000 reads ( pdf)
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2015

[su_icon_text icon=”icon: file-text” icon_color=”#59A373″ icon_size=”32″] Paper “Breaking Barriers on Reuse of Digital Devices Ensuring Final Recycling”. EnviroInfo Conference 2015. Copenhagen, September 9-11 2015. This work received the “Best Paper Award”. (PDF).
[/su_icon_text] [su_icon_text icon=”icon: file-text” icon_color=”#59A373″ icon_size=”32″] Poster “eReuse.org: an ecosystem for traceable reuse of digital devices in a circular economy”. ICT4D & EnviroInfo Conference 2015. Copenhagen, September 9-11 2015. (JPG).
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Projects

[su_icon_text icon=”icon: file-text” icon_color=”#59A373″ icon_size=”32″] NGI Trublo (UPC): Distributed trust and reputation in the circular economy. (7/2021-3/2022)
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DLT4EU (6/2020-1/2021), an interview of the Sant Boi case, final summary report. Awards: top 3 solutions, Circular Cities award of the Hans Sauer Foundation.[/su_icon_text][su_icon_text icon=”icon: file-text” icon_color=”#59A373″ icon_size=”32″]

Ledger (joint UPC, Pangea.org , Usody.com) (2019)[/su_icon_text][su_icon_text icon=”icon: file-text” icon_color=”#59A373″ icon_size=”32″]

APC member grant about municipal computer reuse (2018)[/su_icon_text][su_icon_text icon=”icon: file-text” icon_color=”#59A373″ icon_size=”32″]

Abacus (2018)[/su_icon_text][su_icon_text icon=”icon: file-text” icon_color=”#59A373″ icon_size=”32″]

TagItSmart, our deliverables and our final report as a summary. (2017)[/su_icon_text][su_icon_text icon=”icon: file-text” icon_color=”#59A373″ icon_size=”32″]

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Case Studies

2019

[su_icon_text icon=”icon: file-text” icon_color=”#59A373″ icon_size=”32″] “Las buenas prácticas del mes EREUSE. BARCELONA”, Buenas prácticas de economía social, economia circular en red, Oficina de economia social, marzo 2019, madrid.es (PDF).
[/su_icon_text] [su_icon_text icon=”icon: file-text” icon_color=”#59A373″ icon_size=”32″] “How to extend the electronic devices lifespan and reduce E waste at the city level learning from the Barcelona experience”, Zero Waste Europe, 5 February (Webinar web, Case study , Ereuse slides, City Council Slides, Donalo.org Slides)
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Guides

2021

[su_icon_text icon=”icon: file-text” icon_color=”#59A373″ icon_size=”32″] “A guide to the circular economy of digital devices”
“Una guía sobre la economía circular de los dispositivos digitales”, “Guide de l’économie circulaire de nos appareils numériques”, ereuse.org, October, 2021.
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2019

[su_icon_text icon=”icon: file-text” icon_color=”#59A373″ icon_size=”32″] “Introducció a les plataformes de reutilització i traçabilitat de l’electrònica”, ereuse.org, October, 2019. (pdf).
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Surveys

2019

[su_icon_text icon=”icon: file-text” icon_color=”#59A373″ icon_size=”32″] “Barriers to reuse electronics coming from the public sector”, ereuse.org, February, 2019. (pdf).
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